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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-01-19
The Interstate Commerce Debate.

We give brief abstract of the debate on
the interstate commerce bill in the senate
since our last weeks issue:
Mr.. Stanford of California claimed that
the shorter distance is not charged any
more because of the less rate for the longer
distance. Indeed, the longer distance helps
the railroad companies to maintain them
selves, while without that help perhaps they
could not do the shorter business at all.
Mr.. Coke of Texas said the bill was step
in the right direction. 1t went no further
than the English law regulating railroads,
except that the latter did not prohibit pool
ing, hut required such agreements to be
submitted TO the court of commissioners and
to be absolutely free from injury to the in
terests of the people.
Mr.. Harris of Tennessee said the bill
would put stop to rate wars" and that
it would not necessarily increase through
rates.
Mr.. Mcpherson of New Jersey said the
inevitable result is that unless every rail
road company in the country goes into bank
ruptcy the through rates must be fixed at
points that will give fair and equitable com
pensation for the local business-in other
words, the through rates must be equitable
and compensatory To-day ninety per cent
of all the exported products of the country
is carried by the railroads AT rates which
scarcely pay the cost of doing the work.
That is the thing which the senator COM
plains of-that the through rates are too
low, and that the local rates are made com
paratively high, so as to pay dividends Now,
If the local rate is made reasonable the
natural and inevitable consequence is that
the through rate will be made greater.
Mr.. Call of Florida referred to the fact,
stated in the work of Mr.. Poor, that the
capitalization of the railroads of the country
exceeded their actual cost by $4,000, 0O0, 600
and complained that the rates charged for
transportation were to pay interest and
dividends ON this fictitious and pretended
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-01-19

competent witness against the ac-
cused; annuls all territorial laws that
protect the practice of polygamy; dis
solves the financial corporations known
as the Church of Latter Day Saints and
the Perpetual Emigration Fund Com.
pany, and makes polygamists ineligible
to vote. The bill also provides for
the immediate appointment by the Pres
ident of all judges of the county and pro-
bate courts and selectmcn, and by the
governor of all justices of the peace,
sheriffs, constables and other county
measure, and the Mormons are much
disheartened at its passage.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-01-19
Plain Talk.

" A Plain Mans Talk on the Labor
Question" by Simon Newcomb, LID,
of Johns Hopkins University, is re-
markable work recently published by
Harper & Brothers. 1t is written from
an optimistic standpoint and is par
ticularly severe upon reformers "
who have pet schemes for reconsti-
tuting society. A good many of the
authors opinions and conclusions will
provoke strong dissent from "labOr
reformers " and from others who sim
cerely and conscientiously believe that
the working-men of to-day have sub
stantial and crying grievances, that
labor is oppressed by capital and is de-
frauded of its just rights. Professor
Newcomb has small appreciation of the
attitude of the labor reformers, but APP
pears to regard them as so many char
lataus and demagogues. Some of his
opinions and observations will interest
our readers, and it will be seen that
they have much force. He directly re-
flutes the claim for the Knights of La
Dor that it is useful institution. To
ask" he says, :" that the government
shall take possession of the railroads
and run them shows a woful lack of
practical knowledge" Private cor
porations have not managed our tele-
graphs so well as they have the rail
roads" " Management and brain-work
are more instead of less valuable than
manual toll" Had no one ever got
rich, we should have had no colleges
except a few miserable ones supported
by the state" The author believes
that laborers are in more danger from
labor organizations than from capital
lists. He lays il down as a mathemati.
cal absurdity that man should pro.
duce as much with eight hours labor
as with ten. He does not allow that
strikes have gained any substantial
benefits for laborers. He does not con
slider that an increase of wages, ever
though it involved a diminution Of
profits, would result in an increase o
capital, provided workmen saved thei
wages and employers cut down thei
expenditure for Injuries. He is thor
oughly convinced of the futility of tn
schemes for reconstituting the worl'
and sees nothing very bad in the pres
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-01-19

CERTAIN republicans of Washington
county, Texas, have sent petition to
Senator Hawley, claiming that they are
being driven from the state on account
oftheirpolitical principles. They say that
they are compelled to leave their homes
under serious threats of assassination
and abandon their property, or to accept
for it such prices as are proffered them.
Perhaps their experience will account
in some measure for the one hundred
thousand majority that the Texas
democrats are able to roll up in every
election. There ought to be some
legitimate way of extending relief in
such cases as the one in question.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-01-19

For some days past coal-dealers and
consumers in the eastern cities have
been alarmed by the prospect of a
threatened coal famine. The recent
strike of three thousand coal-handers
at Jersey City was followed by sus-
pension of work by miners at the coal
fields. The six great companies in
volved in the difficulty have supplied
the consumers of coal in seven states,
which are now seriously affected by the
suspension of the traffic. The strike
of the coal-handlers was caused by re-
duction of their pay from twenty-five
and one-half cents an hour to twenty
cents. They now demand twenty-five
cents. Before the trouble is settled
there is liable to be a great scarcity of
coal in Boston, Providence and other
seaboard cities, as the freezing of the
Delaware river cuts off the supply by
sea. The strikers are making the same
mistake that other classes of strikers
have made during the past year-they
are resorting to violent methods to pre-
vent their places from being filled by
others who are willing to work for the
wages offered. While, on the one
hand, there is no public sympathy for
the coal monopolists who are arrogant
and grasping, the public has little SYM
pathy to bestow upon strikers whose
action seriously affects the welfare of
thousands of relatively poor people,
and who seek to deprive other men of
the right to labor.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-01-19
The Senatorial Contests.

Outside of New York, New Jersey,
Massachusetts,, Indiana and California
the elections of United States senators
will be accomplished this week without
much friction. Senator Hawley will be
reelected in Connecticut. The demo-
Gratis will vote for Charles r.. Inger-
soil. In Illinois the republicans have
nominated Charles B. Farwell to be the
successor of General Logan. His prin-
cipal competitors in the caucus were
Hamilton, Henderson, Cannon, Carr,
Raum, Payson and Burchard. There
were no votes for Robert T. Lincoln.
The democrats will cast compli-
mentary vote for Representative Morri-
son. Mr.. Farwell has served in the
house and had much experience in pub
lie affairs. The republicans in the
Pennsylvania legislature have nomin-
ated M. S. Quay, and the democrats
State Senator Wolverton. In Texas
there is close contest between Sena-
WI hdACy anu SOIS
In Tennessee there are numerous candi-
dates, and the reelection of Senator
Whitthorne is in doubt. In New York
the contest between Miller and Morton
is very close, and the Hiscock men
hold the balance of power. In Massa-
chusetts the attempt of the supporters
of Governor Long to settle the sena-
torial contest in caucus has been de-
feated. This result is regarded as
favorable to Senator Dawes. Ex-Sena-
tor William M. Stewart has been elected
in Nevada to succeed Senator Fair. In
Wisconsin Senator Philetus Sawyer will
be reelected.
In the New Jersey legislature the
plans of the democrats have been OBJ
structed by labor men and boiling
democrats who acted with the republic
cans in the organization of the house.
The senate still defers organization.
The democrats will support Governor
Albeit for senator and the republicans
will try to re-elect Senator Sewell, but
the situation is so badly mixed that it
is deemed not unlikely that the election
may go over to new legislature. In
Indiana the republicans succeeded in
seating Lieutenant-governor Robertson,
and the democrats have taken the ques-
ton into the courts. 1t seems prob
able now that two joint conventions
will be held and two United States
senators chosen. The house has I'M
seated democrat in favor of a repub-
lican, on the ground that the former is
justice of the peace and therefore in
eligible under the Constitution. This
gives each party seventy-five votes on
joint ballot. The republicans have re-
nominated Senator Harrison and the
democrats eX-Congressman David Tur-
pie. The senatorial contest in Cali
fornia has assumed new phase by the
decision of the republicans to organize
the senate with twenty "hold-over
senators, which would give them six
majority on joint ballot. The state
supreme court has once, by majority
of one, decided against this plan; but
it is now thought probable that the
court, as at present constituted, will
reverse this decision. The democrats
have renominated Senator Hearst.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-01-19

LAST Thursday the house passed the
Tucker substitute for the Edmunds anti
polygamy bill, which, however, retains
the principal provisions of the latter.
The bill makes the lawful husband or
wife prosecuted for polygamy or bigamy
The Portland daily press., 1887-01-11

Great things are expected from the confer
ence between Mr.. Gladstone and Mr.. Cham
berlain, which takes place next Thursday.
Mr.. Gladstone has interpreted Mr.. Chamber
~1ain's recent speech as an intimation that he
is ready to negotiate with the Liberal leader
with view to patching up some sort of a
truce by which they can stand together on
all matters except the establishment of a
separate Parliament at Dublin. The result
of such an arrangement would be to with
draw large part of the Liberalization sup
port that is now being given to the Salisbury
government, and probably to put speedy
end to the present ministry. The danger is
that to conciliate Chamberlain's followers
Gladstone may make concessions that will
ALLEVIATE the Panellites, and therefore that
his gains from the Liberal Unionists may be
more than offset by the loss of Parnells fol-
lowers. Scylla lies on one side and Charyb-
dis on the other, and Mr.. Gladstone will at
tempt to steer the. Liberal bark between
them. How he will succeed remains to be
seen
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at win probably drive him from the

that will probably drive him from the
priesthood.
The propriety of a priests participation in
politics is question on which there are a
variety of opinions. 1t is above all things a
matter which appropriately is the business
OF the Catholic church to settle, and a discus
sion of it is hardly involved in the case of
DIR. Glynn. The Irish priests in Ireland
have engaged in politics with the approba-
ton of their superiors since the appointment
of Archbishop Walsh, marked a change
in papal sentiment towards the Irish patri-
OTIS; DR. McGlynn worked hard for Mr..
Cleveland without reproof; and Henry
George asserts that even the right hand
man. of Archbishop Corrigan worked hard
to turn men away from voting with the labor
party in the last city election. So it seems
to be in Dr. Glynn's case, not so much that
the authorities at Rome are interested to
keep their priests out of politics as that they
are interested to prescribe what political be-
lief they shall champion. Then becomes per-
tinent the question which Henry George and
DR.. McGlynn are now asking: SIS an Amer
lean citizen, because he is also a Catholic
priest to be held to answer before foreign
tribunal because of his action in American
politicsP" DIR. McGlynn holds that he is
not, and he backs up his belief with bold
pacc
The Portland daily press., 1887-01-11

Gov. Gray, Of Indiana, has abandoned his
scheme of getting himself elected to theUnited
States Senate. He foresees apparently that the
Democratic attempt to keep Lieutenant Gov
ernor Robertson out of the seat to which he
was elected is destined to prove a failure,
and that If he goes to the Senate Republi-
can will succeed to the executive chair. He
is quoted as saying that he thinks the Demo-
cratic party is entitledlto be represented in
the Office of governor during the time for
which he was elected, and that no act of his
should deprive them of that representation.
The withdrawal of Gray leaves Holman and
David Durpee the most prominent Demo-
cratic candidates. The game of the Demo
Gratis is said to be now to stave off an cleo
ton until the legislature adjourns and then
let the governor appoint. The Republicans
feel confident, however, that eventually they
they will control the legislature, and be able
TO re-elect Senator Harrison.
The Portland daily press., 1887-01-11

The announcement that DR.. Edward Nc
Glynn of New York has resolved not to go
to Rome, a resolve that will practically sever
his connection with the Roman Catholic
church, is Important in more respects than
one His support of Henry George was not
his first venture in the political field As he
announced himself in a letter written last
fall to Archbishop Corrigan, DR.. McGynn
has always held that by becoming priest
he did not surrender his "rights and duties
as a citizen" he was born in New York of
Irish parents, and received his early educa-
ton in American free schools. For the
priesthood he studied in the Propaganda
College at Rome, where he acquired a thor
ough classical education, a mastery of Ital-
, ian and other continental languages, and an
acquaintance with other students, who had
assembled from the lands of the most vari-
GUS peoples. In the war he was military
chaplain; later he was again in Europe; and
in 1866 he had become pastor of the st. Ste
phen's, the largest, though not the wealth.
est parish of New York. BY culture, by his
independent and active spirit, and by his in
fiuence with the masses Of the great city, he
has been led to occupy position quite diff
ferent from that Of the ordinary priest.
So long ago as 1882 his speeches for the Irish
Land League drew a censure and demand
for his suspension from the Propaganda at
Rome, which had not as yet come around to
favor the Irish cause. In 1884 he worked ac-
lively for Mr.. Cleveland, but was not GEN.
sured. But in the last municipal campaign
he made an impassioned speech in favor of
Henry George, when he knew that his course
was contrary to the wishes Of Archbishop
rCorrigan. The next day he was suspended
from his duties for two weeks; in short
time he was summoned TO Rome to answer
for bis action before the cardinals of the
Propaganda, the same Propaganda that Gen.
sured him in 1882 for supporting the cause of
the Irish Land League. 1t snow announced
that he has determined to ignore the sum-
mons. Of the Propaganda, determination
The Portland daily press., 1887-01-11

PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

Gov. Ames of Massachusetts holds that
women should be allowed to vote in munich
pal elections.
Mr.. Gladstone is said to have received
$3.50 for his article on "LOcksley Hallp in
the Nineteenth Century.
Over five thousand persons in Cincinnati
during the Murphy meetings, have signed
the pledge to drink no more intoxicants.
A San Francisco judge has decided that a
$3.50 sealskin cloak isn't necessary article
of apparel for the wife of a man with an in
come of $3.50 month.
The emperor and empress of Austria will
meet the king and queen of Italy at Venice
in March, on the occasion of the unwilling Of
a monument to the late King Victor Eman-
ueL
Grand Duke Michael, brother of the Gar
of Russia, was kicked into the street recent
by the proprietor of a sausage shopin Frank
fort, Germany, where lady he had insulted
had taken refuge,
Miss Clara Barton has made, through the
Washington Post. sympathetic appeal in
behalf of the fund for rebuilding the Con
federate Home" at Charleston, S. c. The
institution is an asylum for needy mothers,
widows and young daughters Of Confederate
earthquakes.
Chief Justice Cartier of the Supreme
Court, District of Columbia, is, it is stated,
about to retire on account of i'll health 1t is
stated that Judge William M. Merrick, a
member of the court, and brother of the late
Richard L. Merrick, will be promoted to
chief justice, and that Congressman William
r. Cox of North Carolina, who was defeated
for denomination, will succeed Judge Mer-
rick.
1t is said that Miss Caldwell, the Washing
ton young woman who gave 100000 to the
building fund of the proposed Roman Catho-
lie university in that city, will in a short
time enter Baltimore convent and join the
sisterhood. She became of age few days
ago, and after an elaborate dinner given to
celebrate the event, announced her intention
to Cardinal Gibbons. Miss Caldwell is very
pious, very pretty and very rich.
The Portland daily press., 1887-01-11

The supporters of Warner Miller profess
to believe that his return to the Senate by
the New York legislature is assured. The
friends of the Hon. Levi P. Morton manifest
equal confidence. The contest appears to be
very sclose, with possible chance that a
third candidate in the person of the Hon.
Frank Hiscock will carry off the prize. Mr..
Hiscock is one of the Republican leaders of
the House and man in every way fitted to
represent his State creditably in the Senate.
II the solution of the present contest should
be his election no Republican except the de-
feated candidates would have any cause fol-
The Portland daily press., 1887-01-11

We present elsewhere the full text of Mr..
Looney's ten hour bill, which win be intro
duced in the House today. Mr.. Looney has
given the subject which it deals with close
and intelligent study, and the bill that he
has prepared seems admirably calculated to
accomplish the purpose in view.
The Portland daily press., 1887-01-11
THE PRESS.
TUESDAY MORNING, JAN. II.

We do not read anonymous letters and commun
cations The name and address of the writer are
10 all cases Indispensable, not necessarily for pub
lcation but as a guarantee of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or preserve
communications that are not used.
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CURRENT COMM EMIT
A PRoyERB OF POLITICS.
New York Tribune

A PRovERB OF POLITICS.
New York Tribune.
1t is wise politician who knows whether,
by given act, he is building his boom or
digging his grave.
CAN SHE SAVE THE REST OF THE TICKET.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
1t is believed that Mrs. Cleveland could be
reelected without difficulty.
HOW CAN IT BE DONE.
N. Y. Sun.
By next year there should not be single
stove in use in passenger train in this
whole country, and if the present engines
are not big enough to supply the additional
steam required, bigger ones should be put in
their places.
The Portland daily press., 1887-01-11

STATE OF MAINE. COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND, SIS
1, Chas. Payson, Cashier Of the above named
ndnk, do solemnly swear that the above statement
IS true to the best Of my knowledge and belief.
CHAS. PAYSON, Cashier
Subscribed and sworn TO before me this 9TH day
OF January, 1887. CHAS. q. BANCROFT,
Notary Public
Commentaries:
JACOBMcLELLAN,
j. Il. BAXTER. Directors
WOODBURY. S. DANA)
JAMS d3t
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STATE OF MAINE, COUNTY OF cUSIBERLAND,ss IS.
/, William ii. Soule, Cashier Of the above named
bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement
Is true to the best OF my knowledge and belief
WILLIAM II. SOULE, Cashier
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 18th day
OF January, 1887.
oRRIN $. FoGG, Notary Public.
Correct-Attest
III. N. JOSE,
ID. w. TRUE. Directors.
JOHN Q. TUKESBURY,)
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CARD.

HAVING permanently associated myself with
IL b. A. ATKINSON q Co.. house furnishers, cor
happy to meet my friends in the State Of Maine at
my new quarters. My twenty-five years expe-
rlence In the business with Walter Corey & Co.,
six OF which was spent as mi nager Gin connection
with Walter L. Corey of the Portland Furni-
ture Co, warrants me IN belle wing that l can MI
any order entrusted to my car 10 your entire sat
lsfacti0u. Assuring you that we have one Of the
largest stocks Of carpets chan lber sets and paror
SUITS IN the country TO select II ON, remain
Yours Very Respec fully,
LOR. EMO II. DYER.
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The Portland daily press., 1887-01-11

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CONTINUED SALE.
X.JOHNLITTLE& co.

We are leading in bargains. We have positive evi.
dence by the hrOngs of customers and amount of sales
excitement from Tuesdays sales we offer Wednesday
and Thursday i'm Domestic Department, one ease
1O4 Bleached Sheeting at 20 CENTS worth % cents.
Two bales Lockwood A Cotton i'm remnants at IL
cents, worth cents.
One case beached A Fruit of Loom Cotton i'm rem.
nantS at s cents, worth 10 cents.
One bale 40 inch unbleached Lockwood Cotton at L.
cents, worth cents
One Cotton Flannel i'm remnants at 10 cents
worth Is cents.
Our entire stock of best quality Prints at cents pei
yard.
One American Satines at IL l. cents.
One case Apron Check Ginghams at 5 cents, worth
10 cents. .o....
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Partnership.
Dissolution

THE co-partnership heretofore existing be-
Il tween the undersigned, comprising the firm
of Deering, Milliken & Co.. is this day dissolved
by limitation Either party will sign in liquida-
ton. S. M. MILLIKEN,
w. III. MlLLIKEN,
j. Z. BLABON,
j. ii. SHORT.
w H. MILLIKEN .JR
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COMPREHENSIVE NOTICES.
DISSOLUTION.

NOTICE is hereby given that the partnership
IN heretofore existing between the under
signed under the firm name of c. A. Weston &
Co., is this day dissolved by mutnal consent.
CLARENCE A. WESTON,
GEO. s. BLETHEN.
Portland, Me-, January l, 1887.
Partnership.
Noticsis hereby given that the undersigned
have this day formed a partnership for carrying
on the business of wholesale grocers under the
firm name of G. A. Weston & Co.
CLARENCE A. WESTON,
THOMAS L. THOMPSON.
Portland, Me-, January /, 1887. jan7d1w
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STATE OF MAINE, CUMBERLAND, s.
/, W. w. Thomas, Pres dent of 1.-THE Canal Ma
tlonal Bank Of Portland" do sOlemnly swear that
the above statement Is true 10 the best Of my
knowledge and belief w. w. THOMAS, Prest
Sworn and subscribed 10 before me this 18th day
| of January, 1887. &C. PETERS, Notary Public.
COrrect-Attest:
ELIAS THOMAS,
II. X. BARRETT, ! Directors.
ianSd3t JOHN N. LORD,